Weight for use in pickling-vats.



No. 746,041. PATENTED DEC. 8, 1903. G. G. DEIBEL. WEIGHT FOR USE INPIGKLING VATS APPLIGATION FILED MAR. 16, 1903.

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Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. DEIBEL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

WEIGHT FOR USE IN PlCKLlNG-VATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,041, dated December8, 1903.

Application filed March 16, 1903. Serial No. 147,984. KNO model-) To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. DEIBEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Weights for Use in Pickling-vats, of which thefollowing is a specification containing a full clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in weights for use inpickling-vats, and has for its object to provide means whereby kraut,pickles, and the like may be held immersed in pickling or other fluid.

In the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is aperspective of a pickling-vat having a part broken away to show myimprovement in place. Fig. 2 is a top view of the sections comprising myimprovement. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of a device embodyingmy invention, taken along the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

My invention is peculiarly adapted for use where the pickling-vatemployed is of the usual barrel form.

It consists in providing a number of sections 4, the form and number ofthe sections being such as to compose a completely-circw' lar structurewhen the parts are in juxtaposition. As shown in Fig. 2, the structureis composed of but four sections, each of which isa quadrant; but it ismanifest that agreater or less number of sections may be employed andthat the sections may be of various sizes. These sections areperforated, as shown in Fig. 2, in order to permit the pickling fluid topass freely through them.

The structure formed by all of the sections 4 must be of a size smallerthan the internal diameter of the mouth. of the barrel or vat 5. As thecontents of the barrel are consumed the sections 4 are to be separated,so that they may be distributed evenly about the upper surface of thekraut, pickles, or the like contained in the barrel.

I am aware that heretofore solid circular imperforate heads have beenemployed in pickling-vats.

The advantages of my invention reside in the fact, to which I havebefore alluded, that the sections 4 may be distributed evenly over thesurface of the contents of the picklingvat at any point within the vat,and it is only necessary to remove one of the sections 4 in order tosecure access to the kraut, pickles, or the like to remove a portion ofthe same.

In practice the sections 4 are preferably made of metal, galvanized orotherwise coated to resist the action of the pickling or other fluid inwhich the sections are immersed in use, and they must be of sufficientweight to rest securely upon the solid contents of the vat withoutrequiring the use of Weights to hold them in place, as has been doneheretofore in connection with circular wooden heads used for a likepurpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tohave secured to me by the grant of Letters Patent, is-

An improved weight for use in picklingvats, consisting of perforatedsect-ions in the form of metallic weights and each section independentand separately removable, the outer edges of the sections forming acircle when in juxtaposition, substantially as and for the purposesspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES G. DEIBEL.

Witnesses:

M. G. IRION, ALFRED A. Hum.

